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The Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society (YAHS), formerly known as the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, is a learned society and registered charity [1] founded in 1863. It is dedicated to the study of the archaeology , history and people of the three Ridings of the historic county of Yorkshire .
In 1906 the society and its library moved to Jacob's Well which it quickly outgrew, then moving to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society building. [13] From 1948 to 1953–54 the society produced an Annual Report and Summary of Proceedings, which contain articles on York architecture and archaeology.
Wenham was a prolific excavator in and around York, frequently publishing his excavations with the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. He had a particular interest in the defences of the Fortress at Eboracum (modern day York ).
The museum building in the early 1900s. The museum was founded by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (YPS) to accommodate their geological and archaeological collections, and was originally housed in Ousegate, York, until the site became too small.
George Lloyd (1820 – 21 January 1885) was an English Anglican curate and archaeologist.He was the leading founding member of the Huddersfield Archaeological and Topographical Association, [1] which became the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, and is now the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society.
Working alongside Oxley Grabham from the York Museum, [5] members of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and several private individuals, Patterson cleared and excavated the adopted stretch of the causeway between 1910 and 1920. A further section, near Grosmont Priory, was excavated by Hayes between 1936 and 1939. [37]
The skeletons were re-examined in 2007 by archaeologists Jo Buckberry from Bradford University and Dawn Hadley from Sheffield University. [3] It was revealed that in fact 13 individuals were unearthed in the late 1960s, all had been aged between 18 and 45, and, while eight of the skeletons and nine of the skulls were identified as certainly male, none were identified as female.
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